Birds are damaging the tomatoes, foliage is beginning to die, and basically - the garden just looks horrible.
Still, I took the opportunity to take a few photos of random things, and will briefly address each along the way...
Photo below - caterpillar eggs on the underside of a tomato leaf. These egg clusters are in high numbers on the tomato plants, but simply crushed between 2 fingers as each is located....
Photo below - these little things are found in the garden occasionally, and identification hasn't been determined by myself yet. If anyone knows, certainly speak up, because if not I'll have to just wait for the babies to appear later....
Photo below - I call this one "ode to dead squashbug", heh.
Photo below - I just can't seem to get enough pictures of female flowers for watermelons...They're just cute little things.....
Photo below - Hmmm....I imagine that Jude is thinking to herself "mister, you've got 'til the count of three to throw something into the air for me to catch, or the melon gets it!" Nah, she wouldn't do that.....
Lastly, the 12 oz. jars of salsa that were made the other day...It's really good, but definitely could have used a few more tomatoes added into the batch. Man, the flavor is intense - but so are college football Saturdays in the fall..Oh well, that's what I get for not measuring ingredients when making it...
In other news, the new plantings of squash have germinated already, and should be reaching a pretty big size just as the 2nd planting of corn gets harvested. That's interplanting if you will, and helps get consecutive crops from the same location throughout our pretty long growing season.
Also, all of the pears have been picked, and will be turned into preserves on Saturday afternoon. Man...that's some really good stuff, and I can't wait to use some on a biscuit or piece of toast on Sunday morning. I'll likely do a post on it if anyone would care to see how it's done, and should turn out very good when finished.
Take care, and happy gardening
EG
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14 comments:
I hear you on the heat and humidity, sucks all the fun right out of the garden! Might those be preying mantis egg cases? I hope so, I love them so much! I had some a couple of years ago whose egg cases looked similar, maybe a bit bigger though.
Hi, just drop by and saw your lovely garden and harvest.
Truly nice to see a lot going on in your garden.
Love the squash bug picture!!
Erin - it would be cool if that were the case, but only time will tell.
James - thank you very much, I'm glad you dropped by....
Ribbit - I thought you might get a kick out of that picture.....
Seems my Pears need another week or so before they will be ready for harvest..For us Pear cobblers will work better than preserves ...we still have preserves from last year.. It's hot and humid here in NC so much so that I can hardly breathe (darn those cigarettes I used to smoke 22 years ago). We do what we have to early am or late evening..and run back to the A/C.
You can always add a little more tomato when you open a jar.
Jude is beautiful. I just luv shepards.
Gingerbreadshouse7 - mine were turning ripe one by one, so just decided to harvest all 30 lbs. I freeze some for cooler, also....
Japanese Redneck - me too, I think they are such a beautiful breed...
I spent last week in my house most of the time. I often spend a good amount of time outside, but not last week. It just sucks when it gets too hot.
Mud dauber
They are predatory wasps and are usually found a lone. They also kill Black widow spiders.
More info can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber
I am with you on spending less and less time in the garden lately. For me it is the heat and the mosquitos, they are really bad this year in my neck of the woods. I go out for like 5 minutes to pick peas and squash and I have half a dozen bites.
I see you decided to plant another batch of squash.
This heat definitely takes a toll on the garden and us gardeners. You just can't spend as much time in the garden and really don't get to enjoy it.
Boy that salsa looks good! Looking forward to your jam post!
Stay Cool!
Hello,
I love reading your posts! I'm looking forward to your jam recipe,maybe you can post the tomato salsa recipe..I live in South Western Minnesota and the "National Bird" is the mosquito! It has been so humid here that I only go to work outside in the very early morning!
Kermit - thanks for the heads-up. It's definitely some type of dancer, but I haven't found which one yet....
Kris - yep, hopefully I'll get something from them.
Robin - I'll be glad to do a post on making jam...
Anonymous - please add your name to the next comment so I know who to call you. :)
The salsa recipe is on the back of the Mrs. Wages mix, and I just throw those extra ingredients in to give it some southwest flavor....
You are good at spying buggers!
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